Cigarette-box-grouping machine.



J. IBARRA.

CIGARETTE BOX GROUPING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED APR/28, 1914.

1,143,400. Patented June 15, 1915. 2%:y 1

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CIGARETTE-BOX-GRO'UPING MACHINE.

1,143,404} Specification of Letters Patent. t t June 15, 1915 1Application filed. April 28, 1914. Serial No. 834,951.

To all whom it may concern: fslightly loosened condition. These ends areBe it known that I, Josn IBARRA, a citizen pressed solidly upon'theboxes to aid in fixof Cuba, and a resident of Habana, Cuba, ing saidends by being pressed upon bythe have invented a new and ImprovedGigarollers 18, to receive which, the recesses 60 5 rette-BoxGrr'oupingMachine, of which the above mentioned are formed in the deck 13.

following is a full,clear, and exact descrip- The rollers 18 abovereferred to are united tion. by a shaft 19, on which presses a flatspring Among the principal objects which the 20. The spring isstructurally mounted present invention has in view areito proon the deck13 by 'a' pin or rivet 21. The 10 vide means for arrangingin convenientspring20 operates to press upon the shaft order cigarette boxes so thatthe same may 19 to normally hold the rollers 18 so that p be formed intowhat is termed a wheel; the lower edge thereof extends below the toprovide means for grouping said boxes under surface of the deck 13 andin the and coincidentally fixing the ends of the path of the boxes 9.The boxes 9, inpassing, 15 sealing stamps with which said boxes areengage and lift the rollers 18 from their provided; and to;provide asimple, efficient seats in the deck'13, the spring 20 yielding andaccurate mechanism for' accomplishing to permit this action. Thedelivery floor 12 theobjects stated V I is held flush with the floor ofthe bench 8 by Drawinga-Figifle 1 is a plan view of a brackets 22,through which bolts 23 pass. 20 mechanism of amachine constructed and anThe brackets 22 are bolted to the flange 10, ranged in accordance withthe present inthrough an opening 'in'which extends the vention, the samebeing shown in conju'ncplunger 11. The plunger 11 is reciprocated tionwith a fragmentofthe conveyer bench by any suitable means, the object ofthis of a cigarette-box stamp-applying machine; movement being to permita latch head 24: to 30 Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3engage the pendent arm 25 of an elevator is an end elevation of thesame. 26. The latchhead 24 is formed at the end Descrtpti0n.-As shown inthe'accompanyof a rocking lever 27 to the long end whereing drawings,the bench 8 is hollowed, or of is attached a spring 28. The spring 28box-like in form to provide passages for the 1S entered at the far sideof the plunger 11, delivery of cigarette boxes, such as indiand drawsthe long end of the lever 27 cated by the numerals 9 in Figs. 1 and 2 ofagainst the stop block 29. The stop block the drawings. To support thepresent ma- 29 limits the movement of the lever 27 chine in workingrelation to said bench, a The above-described construction permitsvertically-disposed bolting flange 10 is the lever 27 to freely rock onthe pivot 30, mounted on said bench. The flange 10 is to permit the head24 to yield when strikslotted to form a guide for a plunger 11. ing thearm 25 in the outward movement of The plunger 11 is reciprocated by anyconthe plunger 11, and to assume an engaging ventional and suitablemechanism, said position beyond the end of the arm 25. mechanism beingpreferably connected with The elevator 26 is pivotally mounted on a themechanism by which the boxes 9 are shaft 31, and is bifurcated orprovided with advanced through the passages in the a double-extensionplatform, as seen best in bench 8. Fig. 1 of the drawings. Extending up-The present machine is formed as a chute, wardly from the hub or bearing32 to which having a delivery floor 12 and a partial the platform isattached is an arm provided deck 18. The deck 13 is supported on guideto engage a pull-spring 33. The opposite rails 14 and a centralpartition 15. The end of the spring 33 is secured to an eyelet partition15 is alined with the partition 16 in 34 at the side of the machine. Theplatform the bench 8, which partition divides the pasof the elevator 26is normally held by the sageway for the boxes 9. The deck 13 has aspring 23 in flush arrangement with the de- 50 plurality of openingsformed therein and livery floor 12 of the machine.

extending therethrough. In the present dis- 0pemti0n.1n a machineconstructed as closure, two such openings are formed, each abovedescribed, and as shown in the accombeing disposed in line with the endsof panying drawings, the operation is as folrevenue stamps 17 which areapplied to the lows :-By a suitable intermediate feed 55 boxes 9 by asuitable machine, the ends of mechanism, the boxes 9 are delivered saidstamps being left by said machine in a through the bench 8 upon thefloor 12 of having a plurality the present machine; As before stated,the stamps 17 have been applied to the boxes in a manner which disposesthe free ends there- I of at the top of the boxes and in the path of therollers 18. In theprocess of advancing the boxes to the elevator 26,said stamps pass under and are pressed upon by the rollers 18, thepressure applied being exerted by the spring 20. One of the intermittentmovements feeding the boxes 9 places the end box fairly upon theelevator 26, one box of each of the two rows shown passing over one ofthe sections of said elevators.

Simultaneous with the retractive movement of the intermittent advancingmechanism, the plunger 11 is drawn inward or toward the flange 10. Thehead 24 extends into the path of the arm 25 and engages the same toswing the elevator 26 to a vertical position, the head 24 passing underand beyond the arm 25. In this position of the elevator 26, the box 9 islifted to rest upon its edge, and the elevator 26 is returned by thespring 33 to the normal position thereof, flush with the delivery floor12, and ready to receive the next succeeding box 9 when deliveredthereto.

p Claims:

1. A cigarette box grouping machine, comprising a delivery floor; apartition dividing the same lengthwise; an elevator of wing-like membersdisposed normally flush with said floor;

said plunger; said latch head means pivoting said elevator at the outerend thereof; an actuating arm for said elevator extending below saidfloor; a reclproeating plunger; a latch head mounted on in the path ofsaid arm to engage the same when traveling in one direction only, andyielding means for moving said latch to normally engage said rigidmeans. 7 j V 2. A cigarette box grouping machine, comprising a deliveryfloor; viding the same lengthwise; an elevator having a plurality ofwing-like members disposed normally flush with said floor; meanspivoting said elevator at the outer end thereof; an actuating arm forsaid elevator extending below said floor; a reciprocating plunger;- alatch head mounted on said plunger; means holding said latch head in thepath of said arm toenga'ge the same when traveling in one directiononly; and

automatic means for returning said elevator to its normal position whennot engaged by said latch hea 1 In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

J OSE IBARRA. Witnesses:

LOUIS F. DE ALMAxno, RAOUL F. WASHINGTON.

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